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Brideshead Revisited
by Waugh, Evelyn
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. First Book Club . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 1945 Little Brown True First American Book Club Edition with 1945 on both the title and copyright pages and no other printings cited. After the success in Britain it became the January 1946 Book Club of the Month selection and thus precedes the 1946 Trade Edition and far more elusive. A wonderful copy in Near FINE condition/in a VG DJ. The deep red boards have very little wear -simply bumps at the corners and the black ink is as bright as new. The interior is very clean and tight with just a tad of darkening to the end pages. The DJ has minor wear ar the corners and edges. A RARE copy!
Synopsis
Author Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder during the handful of months following a minor parachute accident. Loosely based on Waugh’s own experiences as a student at Oxford University, the novel tells the story of Charles Ryder, a young man at Oxford who is captivated by an eccentric classmate named Sebastian Flyte and his very wealthy, Catholic family. The first half of the book is filled with teachings of beauty, booze, and witty conversation; in the second half, every one grows up and things all apart. Told in flashbacks from the days of WWII, Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures that wartime austerities denied him. While many critics believe that Waugh’s intention was to present Catholicism positively and reflect his own reasons for converting to it, many interpret the novel in the opposite light, believing that religion actually brings about the ruin of every character in the story. Brideshead Revisited is ranked 45th on BBC’s “The Big Read” survey and 80th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. It is also included in TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923) as well as Newsweek’s list of the 100 best books of world literature.
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- Bren-Books.com
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 007668
- Title
- Brideshead Revisited
- Author
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Book Club
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1945
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Book into Film, Banned Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book Into Film; Banned Books;
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- Bumps
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- Fine
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- Edges
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- New
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